I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.

..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

If you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing.

Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it.